News tagged with rice mutants

Study shows genetic rice breeding goes back 10,000 years

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Masanori Yamasaki and colleagues from Kobe University in Japan, describe how they analyzed the genomes of severa ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation

Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa. The ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0